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        <title>Veterans' Compensation Cost-of-Living Adjustment Act of 2004</title>
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          <text>Became Public Law No: 108-363.</text>
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        <text>See also H.R. 4175.</text>
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        <text>Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 705.</text>
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        <text>Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Reported by Senator Specter without amendment. With written report No. 108-351.</text>
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        <text>Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.</text>
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        <text>Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs. (text of measure as introduced: CR S6279-6280)</text>
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        <fullName>Sen. Specter, Arlen [R-PA]</fullName>
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        <title>S. 2483, Veterans' Compensation Cost-of-Living Adjustment Act of 2004</title>
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        <description>&lt;p&gt;Cost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs on July 20, 2004&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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        <text><![CDATA[For further action, see H.R.4175, which became Public Law 108-363 on 10/25/2004.]]></text>
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        <text><![CDATA[ Veterans' Compensation Cost-of-Living Adjustment Act of 2004 - Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to increase, as of December 1, 2004, the rates of veterans' disability compensation, additional compensation for dependents, the clothing allowance for certain disabled adult children, and dependency and indemnity compensation for surviving spouses and children. <p>Requires each such increase to be the same percentage as the increase in benefits provided under title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act, on the same effective date.]]></text>
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        <text><![CDATA[ <p><b>(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.)</b></p> <p>Veterans' Compensation Cost-of-Living Adjustment Act of 2004 - Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to increase, as of December 1, 2004, the rates of veterans' disability compensation, additional compensation for dependents, the clothing allowance for certain disabled adult children, and dependency and indemnity compensation for surviving spouses and children. </p> <p>Requires each such increase to be the same percentage as the increase in benefits provided under title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act, on the same effective date.]]></text>
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      <text>See also H.R. 4175.</text>
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